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Morton Sacks: Artist

One-Man Exhibition:

Ness Gallery, Pine Manor College 1992

Helen Bumpus Gallery, Duxbury MA, May 1978 (paintings and drawings)

Gallery Mishkenot, Jerusalem, June 1977 (paintings and drawings)

Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, 1967-1961-1958 (paintings and drawings)

Adams House, Harvard University, 1967 (paintings and drawings)

Childs Gallery, Boston, 1954 (drawings)

M.M. Ross Gallery, Boston, 1945 (watercolors)

Group Exhibitions:

Alon Gallery, Brookline, September 1990

Symphony Hall Faculty Exhibition 1989

National Academy of Art, New York, 1974, 1973

Brookline Art Association, 1972

Faculty Exhibition, Boston University 1969

Fogg Museum - Harvard University, 1969

Newport Art Museum, American 20th Century Portraits, 1967

Boston University at Tanglewood, 1970, 1968, 1967

Modern American Drawings, Traveling Exhibition Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, 1958

Boston Arts Festival, 1956

Public Collections:

Boston Public Library, (1991) drawings

Private Collections:

Grosse Points, MI; San Francisco, CA; Watertown, MA; Chestnut Hill, MA; Los Angeles, CA; Newport, RI; Jerusalem, Israel; Bad Salzuflen, Germany; London, England.

Awards and Honors:

Commission for Bicentennial Murals for the Library at Hamden-Sydney College, Virginia, 1974

Artist-in-Residence, Hamden-Sydney College 1974

Artist-in-Residence, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem 1977

Lectures & Critiques:

Redwood Library, "Beckman, Matisse, and Picasso," 2000

Newport Art Museum, "What Artist see when they draw," 1995

Pine Manor College, 1992

Salve Regina University, 1991

Kentucky College, "Painting and Feeling" 1985

Visiting Lecturer, University of Utah, 1978 Lecture: "Imagination, Imagery, and Creativity"

University of Utah, 1978 Evaluation of Art Dept Faculty Appointment

Wellesley College, 1978 Lecture: "The Uses of a Liberal Arts Education"

Hamden-Sydney Alumni Association, 1976, Lecture

Longwood College, Farmington VA 1974, Lecture

Hamden-Sydney College, 1974, Lecture: "The Hazards of Modern Painting"

Judge, Cape Cod Art Association (with Irving Sandler and Franz Kline) 1970

Lecture, Watertown Art Association, 1965

Judge and Critic, Framingham-Natick Art Association, 1963

Teaching:

Visiting Professor, Salve Regina University 1991-1992

Professor Emeritus, Boston University Division of Art, 1988-1990

Associate Professor, Boston University Division of Art, 1963-1987

Instructor, Boston University Tanglewood Art Program, 1970, 1968,1967

Instructor in Drawing and Painting, Adams House, Harvard University, 1959-1972

Instructor in Drawing and Painting, Lowell House, Harvard University, 1959-1962

Instructor in Drawing and Painting, Quincy House, Harvard University, 1959-1962

Mr. Sacks can be reached via phone at: 1-401-848-5555 and 1-401-847-0749. He Maintains a studio in Newport Rhode Island and lives in a townhouse overlooking Trinity Church in Queen Anne Square in Newport

The Online Gallery:

# SACKS1. An oil on canvas, a "Portrait of a Man with a Blue Coat". Signed: M. Sacks. Painted in the late 1940's. In the style of Max Beckman. Morton Sacks, a pre-eminent portrait painter of the 20th century and taught painting at Boston University and Harvard School of Art in the 1960's through the 1980's. Size: 26" x 33". Unframed. Condition: minor scuffs. P.O.R.

#SACKS2. An oil on cancas, "Anatomy Lesson" Signed: M. Sacks. Size: 33" x 41.5". Condition: small 'dent' to the lower left section of the canvas. Price: $7,500.00.

#SACKS3. "Self Portrait", Oil on Canvas by Morton Sacks. Size: 24" x 30". Excellent conditon. P.O.R.

#SACKS4. "Portrait of a Gentleman", size: 28.5" x 36". Signed M. Sacks. P.O.R.

#SACKS5. "Quincy Quarry" by Morton Sacks. Oil on Canvas. Size: 40" x 50". Signed: "M. Sacks". P.O.R.

#SACKS6. "Sacrifice of Issac" By Morton Sacks. Oil on Canvas. Size: 49" x 69". P.O.R.

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